Скачать или смотреть Frankenstein Ep 1 - Overview – Story, Themes, and the 1818 vs 1831 Editions

Overview: a spoiler-light introduction to Frankenstein—its story, themes, and why this season compares the original 1818 text with Mary Shelley’s revised 1831 edition.
This overview episode introduces Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus and explains how Season 1 of Chapter by Chapter Classics will use both the original 1818 text and the revised 1831 edition. You’ll get a short, spoiler-light summary of the story’s frame (Walton’s Arctic voyage), Victor Frankenstein’s experiment and its consequences, and the creature’s search for connection. We outline the major themes—ambition, responsibility, isolation, prejudice, and the ethics of creation—and explain how the 1818 edition presents a more ambiguous, sympathetic creature and a more responsible Victor, while the 1831 edition adds a new author’s introduction, leans more on fate and destiny, and sometimes makes the creature’s actions feel more deliberate and villainous.
This episode is designed as an easy starting point: you’ll learn who the main characters are, how the letters and chapters fit together, and why teachers and scholars still care about the differences between the 1818 and 1831 versions today. After this, you’ll be ready to follow our short chapter-group episodes as a study guide for either edition.
Chapters covered: Whole story (both editions), but spoiler-light (no detailed ending breakdown).
Narration for this episode is performed with an AI voice for clear, consistent delivery.
Text and illustrations: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. 1818 text (original 1818 edition, illustrated): Project Gutenberg eBook #41445 – https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/41445... 1831 text (revised 1831 edition, illustrated, with Mary Shelley’s new introduction): Project Gutenberg eBook #42324 – https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42324... Both editions are in the public domain in the USA.